Huyen was a bright young girl with aspirations for her future, but at a young age she thought she’d have to give up on her dreams because her family was so poor. She entered an Orphan’s Promise project, and soon her dreams became realities!
Mai is a smart 11th grade girl who is enrolled in Orphan’s Promise-supported Victory House program in Danang, Vietnam. She has had a difficult life, but Mai dreams of one day becoming a doctor.
Hien is a true orphan. Her mother died when she was only two years old. Her father, who was mentally challenged, was left to raise 4 daughters on his own and he wasn’t up to the task.
Trinh was born with cerebral palsy. When she came to an Orphanâ’s Promise supported therapy center in 2010, she was very small. The muscles in her mouth were so rigid, she could barely eat.
keeping families together Before Mai’s family joined an Orphan’s Promise Keeping Families Together program (KFT) in Vietnam, she and Duc, her husband, often fought. The fights were usually over money and often became violent. Life was hard. The children knew the stab of hunger pains. Mai’s sons couldn’t attend school because they couldn’t afford the… Read more »
Hai knows hunger. He grew up without a father, and his mother struggled to support her four children. Hai remembers the family being evicted from their single room apartment for failure to pay rent. For a time, the children slept in the stairwell of a bank because they had nowhere else to go. The children… Read more »
Fifteen-year-old, Vi, was born deaf although it was a couple of years before her family knew it. She was later abandoned by her parents. She hasn’t seen her mother for years. Her father visits once a year at Tet Holiday. Vi grew up unable to communicate with others – living not only in a lonely… Read more »
